And another sudden kiss without permission too. Be careful or Mana-chan might really step on you!
Looking at the girl's puffed-up, angry appearance, Kamijou Mutsuki only found her adorable.
"Well then, Donut Lady, see you around~"
He didn't intend to stay any longer and simply turned to leave.
Watching his back, Donut Lady couldn't help clenching her fist in protest.
But seeing that he really seemed about to leave, she still couldn't help speaking up.
"About the new band… Mana-chan respects Uika's decision, as long as she doesn't quit Sumimi…"
The girl's voice wasn't loud, and she originally hadn't expected Kamijou Mutsuki to hear it.
However, seeing the boy wave at her with a teasing smile on his face, Donut Lady couldn't help her cheeks reddening slightly.
"I didn't say anything…"
She muttered that softly, and only after she could no longer see his figure did she let out a light sigh.
Recalling everything that happened today, it all felt like a dream.
Especially…
The girl touched her lips, as though savoring something, before immediately shaking her head with a flushed face.
It was all because of that inherently evil blue-haired brat…
The resentment in the girl's heart toward a certain someone deepened a little more.
Forget it, better go back!
She needed some time to sort out her complicated emotions.
However, she hadn't even been home for very long before someone came to visit.
The person standing at the door was both the one she most wanted to see and the one she least wanted to see—her partner, Misumi Uika!
"Mana,"
Looking at her partner, the girl's enchanting purple eyes carried both guilt and determination.
"There's something I need to tell you. Today, I actually went with…"
Clearly, Uika had ultimately agreed to Sakiko's request.
After all, Sakiko was the childhood friend she cared about most. Sakiko had even specially accompanied her for the whole day, and in the end didn't require her to quit Sumimi either—how could she possibly refuse?
However, in the anime version, Donut Lady had known nothing about this matter, so Uika hadn't felt much psychological pressure about joining Ave Mujica.
But reality was completely different. Donut Lady had repeatedly expressed her rejection toward this matter.
Although Uika previously hadn't stated things too absolutely, so it didn't count as breaking a promise or betraying Donut Lady—
The guilt-ridden girl still wanted to properly explain everything to her partner.
No matter whether she got angry afterward or anything else, Uika was prepared to bear it all herself!
"No need to say it,"
Seeing that Uika had no intention of hiding things from her, Donut Lady felt touched, yet at the same time inexplicably even more guilty inside.
Without waiting for Uika to finish speaking, she hurriedly interrupted.
"Uika, I trust you!"
Donut Lady held Uika by the shoulders, looking into those enchanting crystal-like purple eyes filled with complete trust.
"Mana…"
Uika hadn't expected her partner to trust her this much, and felt both moved and guilty.
Even if she joined Sakiko's band, she absolutely wouldn't neglect Sumimi!
Meanwhile, seeing Uika's reaction only made Donut Lady feel even guiltier.
But after thinking about it carefully, she also felt she had no reason to feel guilty.
After all, she and Uika were partners. Even if she really found a boyfriend someday, that would still be perfectly normal, right?
Still… partners…
Recalling Tomori's earlier words, Donut Lady suddenly felt a little lonely inside.
No matter how close friends they were, there would eventually come a day when she and Uika parted ways.
If, just like Tomori said, the two of them both became Kamijou Mutsuki's girlfriends, then would they be able to stay together forever?
Donut Lady even nearly blurted out a question asking how Uika felt about Kamijou Mutsuki, fortunately managing to stop herself in time.
The moment the girl realized what she had almost been thinking, her cheeks instantly turned scarlet.
How could she possibly think something like that?!
It was all Tomori's fault!
Wuwuwu, there's already… no going back…
Meanwhile, Teacher Big Sakiko had also already returned home.
Naturally, today's mission had been completed successfully.
The only issue was the attitude of a certain Donut Lady.
After all, she didn't seem willing to let her partner join another band.
To this, Kamijou Mutsuki simply said there was no need for Sakiko to worry. As for Donut Lady's problem, he had already resolved it.
"Mutsuki…"
Hearing this, Maid Little Sakiko's expression involuntarily became somewhat complicated and self-reproachful.
After all, unlike in the anime, a large part of Sakiko forming the new band this time was because she wanted to help Kamijou Mutsuki.
Yet in the end, she still needed him to solve the problem for her.
"It must've been really hard, right? She didn't make things difficult for you, did she?"
After all, although their relationship wasn't bad—
Among all the Kirara-style anime band girls, Donut Lady really was one of the girls most distant from Kamijou Mutsuki.
Even though Sakiko knew Kamijou Mutsuki wasn't the kind of person to suffer losses, just thinking about the trouble he might have gone through still made her heart ache a little.
"About that…"
Looking at the worried expression on Maid Little Sakiko's face, Kamijou Mutsuki's expression became somewhat subtle.
Made things difficult for him?
If dating counted, then sure.
And besides, hadn't she promised she was going to step on him?
Why wasn't this Donut Lady keeping her word?!
And after resolving the issue with Uika, the only remaining member left was Umiri. Once she joined, the new band would finally be complete.
As for Umiri's side, she was much easier to deal with than Uika.
After all, since Taki herself was already a member of MyGO!!!!!, she naturally had no reason to stop Umiri from joining Ave Mujica.
However, Umiri proposed a condition of her own.
She could join Sakiko's band, but Kamijou Mutsuki had to agree to one condition from her.
Since Umiri didn't specify what the condition actually was, Kamijou Mutsuki—unwilling to overpromise—could only say that if it was reasonable, he would agree.
Fortunately, Umiri didn't express dissatisfaction with that response.
Mutsuki, when exactly did you hook up with Umiri?
Does Taki know about the two of you?
After finishing the conversation with Umiri, Sakiko looked toward Kamijou Mutsuki with a subtle expression.
To this, Kamijou Mutsuki simply responded:
How would I know?!
Still, why was Umiri's request also related to Kamijou Mutsuki?
Sakiko didn't particularly care about the relationship between the two of them, but for some reason she still felt somewhat lonely.
She had clearly wanted to help Kamijou Mutsuki, yet even forming the band itself had only succeeded because of him…
Thus, the girl decided to make up for what she considered her own inadequacy after the band was formed.
Because in the final episode of MyGO!!!!!, there was already a new Ave Mujica song.
For the next several days, Sakiko practically devoted all her time to the new song.
However, this thoroughly exhausted the other members of the band—especially Big Cat.
Although the members of Sakiko's band were all highly skilled, or at the very least monstrously talented—
The difficulty of the new song itself was already quite high, and on top of that, although Big Cat had excellent talent, her fundamentals weren't especially solid.
She had even only recently bought her drum set.
Moreover, because the band had been assembled so hastily, the coordination between members wasn't very good either. After this period of training,
Big Cat felt that her body was already pineapple pineapple da~
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